American journalist
John Maxwell Hamilton
Born (1947-03-28 ) March 28, 1947 (age 77)
Aurora, Illinois , U.S.Occupation Journalist, public servant, and educator Nationality American Alma mater
Marquette University
George Washington University Notable works Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda; Entangling Alliances: How The Third World Shapes our Lives Notable awards Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award in 2023, Freedom Forum's Administrator of the Year Award in 2003, Goldsmith Prize
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John Maxwell Hamilton (born March 28, 1947) is a journalist, public servant, and educator. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in the Manship School of
Mass Communication ,
Louisiana State University , and a Global Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington, D.C.
Career
Hamilton is the author or coauthor of eight books and editor of many more. Two of his most recent books are Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
[1] and Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.
[2] Each of them won the
Goldsmith Prize among other awards. His other books include Edgar Snow: A Biography
[3] and the lighthearted Casanova Was A Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books.
[4] The French 75, the Story of a Cannon, a Cocktail, and Propaganda will appear in 2024.
As a journalist, Hamilton reported in the United States and abroad for the
Milwaukee Journal , the
Christian Science Monitor , and
ABC radio . He was a longtime commentator for
MarketPlace , broadcast nationally by
Public Radio International .
[5] His work has appeared in the
New York Times , the
Washington Post ,
Politico ,
Foreign Affairs , and
The Nation , among other publications.
In government, Hamilton oversaw
nuclear non-proliferation issues for the
House Foreign Affairs Committee , served in the
State Department during the
Carter administration as special assistant to the head of the
U.S. foreign aid program in Asia, and managed a
World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development.[
citation needed ] He served in
Vietnam as a
Marine Corps
platoon commander and in
Okinawa as a
reconnaissance
company
commander .[
citation needed ]
In his twenty years as an LSU administrator, Hamilton was founding
dean of the Manship School and the university's executive vice-chancellor and
provost .
[6] While he was dean, the Manship School created a doctoral degree devoted to media and public affairs, and launched the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and a related
opinion research facility. The number of majors more than doubled as did the size of the faculty and staff; the school's endowment more than sextupled.[
citation needed ]
In the 1980s, Hamilton established a foreign news project for the
Society of Professional Journalists and for the
American Society of Newspaper editors . The
National Journal said in the 1980s that Hamilton shaped public opinion about the complexity of U.S.-
Third World relations probably "more than any other single journalist."[
citation needed ] For many years, Hamilton was on the board of the
Lamar Corporation , the largest
outdoor advertising company (by number of outdoor signs) in the United States.
In 2023, Hamilton won the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award for excellence in journalism history, given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division, and the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History, the highest honor of the American Journalism History Association.
[7] He received the Freedom Forum's Administrator of the Year Award in 2003.
[6] He has received funding from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations, among others. In 2002 he was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government . He has served twice as a
Pulitzer Prize jurist. Hamilton is a member of the
Council of Foreign Relations and the
Overseas Press Club . Hamilton serves on the board of the
International Center for Journalists , of which he is treasurer.
[8]
Hamilton earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Marquette and
Boston University respectively, and a doctorate in American Civilization from
George Washington University .[
citation needed ]
Awards
Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division, 2023
[7]
Two-time winner of the
Goldsmith Prize
[9]
Two-time winner of Book of the Year Award,
American Journalism Historians Association
Book of the year, History Division,
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Culbert Family Book Prize for Publications on Media History
[10]
Tankard Book Award,
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
[11]
Unsung Hero Award, selected by LSU Martin Luther King Commemorative Committee, 2006
Omicron Delta Kappa , National Leadership Honorary Society, inducted 2004
Freedom Forum Journalism Administrator of the Year, 2003
Publications
The French 75, the Story of a Cannon, a Cocktail, and Propaganda
Main Street America and the Third World
[12]
Entangling Alliances: How The Third World Shapes our Lives
[13]
Edgar Snow: A Biography
[3]
Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers (with co-author George Krimsky)
[14]
Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books
[4]
Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad
[2]
The Washington Post,
"Happy 100th birthday, information warfare: How World War I led to modern propaganda and surveillance"
The Washington Post ,
"In 2016, we're going to campaign like its 1916"
The Conversation ,
"Why you should care about the 'Third Dimension' of government information"
The Conversation,
"The sinking of the Lusitania: how the British won American hearts and minds"
The New York Times,
"All the President's Propaganda"
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
[1]
Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies
[15]
The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study
[16]
Herbert Corey’s Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All
[17]
References
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a
b Hamilton, John (2020).
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda . LSU Press.
^
a
b Hamilton, John (2009).
Journalism's Roving Eye: a history of American Foreign Reporting . LSU Press. p. 655.
ISBN
9780807134740 .
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a
b Hamilton, John (2003).
Edgar Snow: A Biography . LSU Press. p. 384.
ISBN
9780807129128 .
^
a
b Hamilton, John (2000).
Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing , Selling, and Reading of Books . LSU Press. p. 351.
ISBN
9780807125540 .
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"LSU Manship School of Mass Communication" . 2017-01-03. Archived from
the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2020-10-05 .
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a
b
"LSU Manship School of Mass Communication" . Archived from
the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2014-08-19 .
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a
b
"LSU Manship School's John Hamilton Honored for Media History Excellence by AEJMC" . www.lsu.edu . Retrieved 2023-07-11 .
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"Board of Directors" . International Center for Journalists . Retrieved 2020-10-05 .
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"Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda - Goldsmith Awards" . 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2022-06-28 .
^ Chapman, Llewella (2022-05-02).
"Culbert Family Book Prize for Publications on Media History dealing with Propaganda, Mass Persuasion and Public Opinion: Winner 2022" . Retrieved 2022-06-28 .
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"Big news for Journalism's Roving Eye!" . LSU Press Blog . Retrieved 2022-06-28 .
^ Hamilton, John (1988).
Main Street America and the Third World . Seven Locks Press. p. 220.
ISBN
9780932020642 .
^ Hamilton, John (1990).
Entangling Alliances: how the Third World shapes our lives . Seven Lock Press. p. 204.
ISBN
9780932020826 .
^ Hamilton, John (1997).
Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers . LSU Press. p. 216.
ISBN
9780807121900 .
^ Hamilton, John (2020).
"Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies" . Social Science Quarterly . 101 : 144–160.
doi :
10.1111/ssqu.12736 .
S2CID
210592413 .
^ Hamilton, John (2017).
"The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study" . Journalism . 18 (4). Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism: 391–407.
doi :
10.1177/1464884915625630 .
hdl :
2429/58229 .
S2CID
147991067 .
^ Hamilton, John Maxwell; Finn, Peter (2022). Herbert Corey's Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All . LSU Press.
ISBN
9780807177952 .
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